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 68 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 776-SEPT. 3, 1954

merit of the water of the Missouri River, The Chief of Engineers shall give public notice one year in advance of the prospective date of the closing of said gates for said purpose and all improvements of whatever nature, all timber of whatever kind or class shall be salvaged or removed or else shall be considered as abandoned by the Tribe or by the individual owners at a date six months subsequent to the date of the notice given by the Chief of Engineers. All individuals and personal property shall remove or be removed from the taking area before the expiration of the one year's notice given by the Chief of Engineers as aforesaid. And the United States shall not be liable for any loss of life or property not so removed from the taking area from and after the expiration of said notice. SECTION X. After the Oahe Dam gates are closed and the waters of the Missouri River impounded, the said Indian Tribe and the members thereof shall have the right to graze stock on the land between the level of the reservoir and the taking line described in Part II hereof. The said Tribal Council and the members of said Indian Tribe shall have, without cost, the right of free access to the shoreline of the reservoir including the right to hunt and fish in and on the aforesaid shoreline and reservoir, subject, however, to regulations governing the corresponding use by other citizens of the United States. SECTION X L The United States through the Department of the Interior shall render all aid and assistance to individual members of said Tribe whose lands are within the said taking area for the purposes of purchasing land in the name of the United States for said individuals and the United States shall reconvey said lands under trust patent to the individual owners upon the selection by said owners of the land which they decide to have purchased for them. The said trust patents shall be in form and effect the same as corresponding trust patents heretofore issued to said individuals. The holders of exchange assignments within the said taking area shall be regarded as holders of trust patents and shall be accorded the same privileges and procedures as holders of land held in trust as in this section provided. The funds for the purchase of such substitute land in all cases shall be provided by the individual applying for such purchase and reconveyance as is herein described, out of monies placed to his credit for the transfer of his lands, improvements and timber under the authority of this agreement and the subsequent Act of Congress herein provided for but no service charge shall be made by the United States in addition to the cost of the substitute allotment. The lands so selected and purchased as substitute allotments may be either within the boundaries of the Cheyenne River Reservation as diminished by this agreement or outside said reservation as may meet the desires of the individuals involved in the several transactions: Provided, That no purchase of lands outside the Cheyenne River Reservation shall affect the existing status of such lands, interests or rights therein, or improvements thereon, with respect to taxation. No prior Act of Congress or Departmental regulation shall be held to be a bar to the full operation of this section, nor shall the Tribal Constitution, ordinance or resolution thereunder be held to be a bar to the full operation of this section, numbered X I. SECTION X II. No part of any expenditure made by the United States under any or all of the provisions of this agreement and the subsequent acts of ratification shall be charged as an offset or counter claim against any tribal claim which has arisen under any treaty, law, or executive order of the United States prior to the effective date of taking of said land as provided for in section I hereof and the payment of Sioux benefits as provided for in section 17 of the said

1193 Public notice.

Grazing, fishing and hunting rights.

Trust patents.

Tribal claims.

S i o u x benefits, continuance.

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